Kien Ho

Computer Science Student

Skills

Education

New Jersey Institute of Technology

B.S. in Computer Science

2025 - 2029

Newark, NJ

  • Albert Dorman Honors Scholar
  • Winner of the Honors Interdisciplinary Research Forum—Using CNN to analyze particle trajectories in the mucus
  • Relevant Courseworks: Data Structures and Algorithms, Machine Learning, Research Methods

Experience

Jan 2026 - Present

  • Built a social media platform with a unique focus on in-person groups with Next.js for the web application and MongoDB for persistence.
  • Implemented in-house password and passkey authentication and secured sign-in endpoints.
  • Delivered a minimum viable product with double-digit daily active users.

Undergraduate Researcher

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Jan 2026 - Present

Newark, NJ

  • Working with Dr. Zephyr Yao on two projects—surveying the security of mobile LLM and investigating LLM's ability to transpile memory-unsafe C code into Rust.
  • Used Python to automate the collection of relevant papers on a topic using forward and backward reference search.
  • Created coding samples to preliminarily evaluate the ability of LLM to convert C code into Rust.

Software Engineering Intern

TNTech

Jul - Aug 2024

Ha Noi, VN

  • Worked with the product team in developing the frontend for an enterprise app for risk management and compliance at Vietnam Asia Bank using React.
  • Resolved software development issue through CI/CD workflow.

Co-Founder, National President, and Special Advisor

Wise Worm

Aug 2023 - Aug 2025

Vietnam

  • Founded and led Wise Worm, delivered no-cost English language class virtually to 150 students across four Vietnamese provinces.
  • Established a system of local chapters and a formal organizational structure to assist the rapid expansion.
  • Provided strategic guidance to the 2025 Executive board as they worked on Wise Worm's operation and expansion.

Publications

  • Contributor and first author of the chapter Energy Efficiency in Reflective Intelligent Surface (RIS), which surveyed energy efficiency evaluations and optimization techniques in RIS systems.